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February 20, 2013 As London songstress Kate Nash told SPIN recently, the writing of her punk-inflected third full-length, Girl Talk, came as both surprise and catharsis. …
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February 20, 2013 As London songstress Kate Nash told SPIN recently, the writing of her punk-inflected third full-length, Girl Talk, came as both surprise and catharsis. …
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February 20, 2013 It began with a dress in a window. "I walked by this shop in my neighborhood and I saw it," Kate Nash remembers aloud. "I thought: That's it. That's my album. It was bright red, bright pink, and short. Knitted, with an angular pattern. I don't know what it was, but it was a statement. I wanted that attitude, and I wanted it on my next record." This was two years ago, maybe more. Nash started writing feverishly, like she hadn't before. …
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January 11, 2013 Kate Nash is coming into her powers at just the right time. The keenly observant singer and songwriter's piano-based 2007 debut album, Made of Bricks, topped the charts in her native U.K. when she was only 20. She could've kept aiming for the pop mainstream and burned out or faded away, but instead she reacted against that success with 2010's riot-grrl-inspired My Best Friend Is You. …
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November 18, 2012 "I wanted 'Death Proof' to have a Tarantino feel," English songstress Kate Nash says of the Aram Rappaport-directed clip for her new EP's titular cut. "But I also love this movie called Freaks so a lot of the inspiration came from that as well: old Bettie Page pictures, travelling circus people, and freak shows."Nash and Rappaport had actually worked together last summer in New York on the film Syrup, in which she had a small part. …
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June 4, 2010 Kate Nash has a new occupation: sexy circus ringleader.
The Brit songbird just released the music video for "Kiss That Grrrl," a track from her latest album, the SPIN-approved My Best Friend Is You -- and it's a silly play on a circus sideshow, featuring the singer-songwriter dressed in a sparkling blue leotard as she tames a life-sized stuffed-animal tiger and dresses her boyfriend, Cribs frontman Ryan Jarman, in a wig.
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April 27, 2010 She might wear cute outfits and sing songs with titles like "Pumpkin Soup," but British singer-songwriter Kate Nash's North American tour kickoff at Toronto's Mod Club Theatre was pure riot grrrl. Debuting a choppy haircut and an edgy, no-wave sound, Nash told a crowd packed with pretty girls in party dresses that "a cunt is a useful thing." The response? …
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April 20, 2010 Nash's 2007 debut was charming, if snippy, piano pop sung by a kid who'd just begun to let herself cuss. Now 22, she's full-on pissy and proud, pulling from some reliable forebears on this fascinating follow-up. …
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February 26, 2010 Chart-topping Brit singer Kate Nash will return with a new sound on her yet-to-be-titled second album, due stateside on April 20. …
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February 12, 2010 Kate Nash topped the U.K. charts in 2007 with a mix of soft acoustic ballads and foul-mouthed tales about "dickhead" lovers. Now the 22-year-old is back with her second album (not yet titled) -- and she's got a new sound to match that mouth of hers.
Nash just posted the album's first leak, "I Just Love You More," to her blog, and it's a gritty, full-on wall-o-punk. …
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January 28, 2010 Don't mess with Kate Nash -- or you'll end up the target of one of her songs.
When we first caught up with Nash in 2007, the then 19-year-old Londoner was topping the U.K. charts with her debut album, Made of Bricks, which banked on gushy stories of heartbreak and drama-filled booze-ups, delivered in a foul-mouthed, colloquial Brit-talk. …
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